The Quarterly Review, Band 48William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1832 |
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... reason warns us from this enchanted ground , on the active and inquisitive mind such warnings are generally lost . Even the grave historian is perpetually excited by the hope of discovering some of the leading facts in the early ...
... reason warns us from this enchanted ground , on the active and inquisitive mind such warnings are generally lost . Even the grave historian is perpetually excited by the hope of discovering some of the leading facts in the early ...
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... reasons may , how- ever , be suggested , besides the almost national zeal of the author for the brethren of his adoption , to account for the interminable length into which he has drawn out their annals . The materials . of the work are ...
... reasons may , how- ever , be suggested , besides the almost national zeal of the author for the brethren of his adoption , to account for the interminable length into which he has drawn out their annals . The materials . of the work are ...
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... reason that they are immediately beneficial ! We will take a brief view of his labours in this course . The work , very properly , begins by calling attention to the cir- cumstances which influence , the supply of food to a community ...
... reason that they are immediately beneficial ! We will take a brief view of his labours in this course . The work , very properly , begins by calling attention to the cir- cumstances which influence , the supply of food to a community ...
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... reason to presume from this that the pressure would continue , if the whole uncultivated world were opened to the agriculture of the same population ? But our author says , ' the question may be made a matter of computation ...
... reason to presume from this that the pressure would continue , if the whole uncultivated world were opened to the agriculture of the same population ? But our author says , ' the question may be made a matter of computation ...
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... reason to suppose the proportion of cultivable to non - cultivable surface to be less in our colonies than at home . We know , indeed , many of their extensive savannahs and primeval forests to be more fertile than our very best soils ...
... reason to suppose the proportion of cultivable to non - cultivable surface to be less in our colonies than at home . We know , indeed , many of their extensive savannahs and primeval forests to be more fertile than our very best soils ...
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Seite 284 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Seite 286 - SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE OF HIS SHIPWRECK, and consequent Discovery of certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea: with a detail of many extraordinary and highly interesting Events in his Life, from 1733 to 1749. as written in his own Diary. Edited by Miss JANE PORTER.
Seite 234 - It is said that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation.
Seite 196 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Seite 67 - That every man in want is knave or fool : " God cannot love" (says Blunt, with tearless eyes) " The wretch he starves" — and piously denies: But the good bishop, with a meeker air, Admits, and leaves them, Providence's care.
Seite 573 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Seite 95 - Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve ! Where no hope is, life's a warning That only serves to make us grieve, When we are old...
Seite 46 - ... as to how many angels can dance on the point of a needle.
Seite 122 - Eternal God ! on what are thine enemies intent ! What are those enterprises of guilt and horror, that, for the safety of their performers, require to be enveloped in a darkness which the eye of Heaven must not penetrate!" — he asked, "Did I say penetrate, sir, when I preached it?